Distributive justice and cooperation
This project seeks to study the individual perception of distributive justice and its impact on cooperation and altruism among individuals with heterogeneous wealth.
This project will be developed in two steps:
Theoretically define the individual perception of distributive justice based on two concepts present in the literature of moral and political philosophy called limitarianism and sufficientarianism. We propose to develop a new model of social preferences by linking the two concepts of distributive justice, limitarianism, or the disutility of the existence of excessively high incomes, and sufficientarianism, or the disutility derived from the existence of excessively low wages.
To test the predictions and results of the model through experiments. To this end, we will conduct one experiment in a developed country and another in a developing country. The purpose of the experiments will be to determine whether the heterogeneity of the riches and poors lines at the individual level can explain the patterns of experimental behavior in the dictator game and public good game that we will implement in these countries. These games are well studied in the literature, but from other points of view.
Objective
The project seeks not so much to predict that these two lines exist and that they are heterogeneous across individuals within and across countries, but rather to better understand this heterogeneity, the factors that determine the perception of distributive justice and the impact it has on altruism and cooperation between individuals. Once this complex concept is better understood, we could make better predictions on how to achieve a fairer distribution within a society and between societies.
The methodological contribution is to create a new model of social preferences and in the experimental part we will first perform a metaanalysis of the corresponding literature to compare our estimate with those present in the literature.
Our team
Principal Investigator
Markus Kinateder
Navarra Center for International Development / School of Economics, University of Navarra
My research
Sandra Polanía Reyes
Navarra Center for International Development / School of Economics, University of Navarra
My research
TEAM RESEARCH
Ernesto María Gavassa Pérez (School of Economics)
Itzel De Haro López (Navarra Center for International Development)
PID2023-147010NB-I00
